Personal name · Semitic
TU-QE-NU
personal name: tuqnu 'good order, safety'; the flute-player of ZU-JU-PU₂
- Reading
- Tuqnu
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- TU-QE-NU
Commentary
HT 25a .3 TU-QE-NU at the line end with no numeral, then .4 ZU-JU-PU₂ 1 ṯulpu ‘flute-player’, his trade (GORILA I 44–45). Tuqnu, √t-q-n ‘to be in good order’: the Ugarit PN tqn, táq-qa-na (DULAT 862); ta-qa-an at Alalakh, il-taq-nu at Ugarit (GlOS 2, 294); Akk. PN Tuqunu-ēreš (CAD T 480). One witness.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry TU-QE-NU.